the hunting of the snark

Achtung snark hunters! Avoid any authors unwilling to suffer their own characters’ fate. Eschew the likes of Samuel Beckett and whomever w...

Martin Gardner, in his indispensible  Annotated Snark,  cites Eric Partridge’s assertion that the Baker’s use of antediluvian is "one...

The very mention of that hateful word Boojum had sent our Baker into a swoon and he now reclines artfully upon his hot-buttered-charpoy.  ...

Utter  bedlam  has broken out amongst the B-Boyz at the mention of the B-Word! The Baker, mortally wounded by the tusks of the dreaded Boo...

The Bellman continues his Indictment with the accusation of Ambition, tempered by the observation that all Snarks, like the intestines or ...

Given : Only with one’s   bathing-machine   can one bathe properly and thoroughly. Given : The divinely-ordained, absolute and ineffable p...

The story so far … the Snark stands accused of Bad Taste, Poor Timing and now — Humorlessness! The Bellman’s  Indictment of the Snark  see...

The Bellman continues his Exposition of the Snark with a second accusation — Sloth!* We illustrate his text with this shameless, paranoiac...

The uncooked flesh of the Snark was sufficient for our more distant ancestors but today’s gastronomes must have their Snark curried, tando...

We have arrived now at the very  omnium  of Fit the Second, that critical portion of  The Hunting of the Snark  in which the author descri...

There are those who might quibble and look askance at my rather ideologically vacant interpretation of this stanza. Yes, it is a trifle ir...

The  Shakespearean quotation  will be familiar to all poetical and political earmongers. The Bellman has been depicted in the definitive R...

Jokes kept for a season of woe, an almost biblical undertaking on the part of the Bellman, whose storehouse of mirth has been sorely deple...

All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely Snark hunters: they have their exits and their entrances; and one Bellman in his ...

Another wordless sighting of the HMS Snark, observed tacking ‘round the Bonnet-Maker, whose resemblance to Friedrich Nietzsche borders...

In a world without words, only the small-minded will be tongue-tied. Although our gallant crew aboard the  HMS Snark  is none of the above...